And that sparks a revolution.
Which is what happened when Renault's new chief executive, the mercurial and ever-curious Italian, Luca de Meo, landed up at the troubled French car-maker's HQ late last year with a mission to shake things up.
The Renault 5 will be the first to get a new, electric incarnation after the firm's new boss Luca de Meo (pictured) discovered a prototype idea in the car giant's design studio
The Renault 4 may also be set to make a comeback as the French car giant embraces the trend for retro-styled motors
While digging around one of the dustier regions of the car giant's design studio with his posse of underlings, the former boss of SEAT and Fiat, came across a half-hidden full-scale prototype model of a small hatchback that intrigued him.